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View Sea Urchins Eating Kelp Forests Gif. New solutions and experiments to address this are in the works. When you see a sea otter, they're usually either eating or digesting, often munching on urchins, says ecologist anne salomon, a pew marine fellow.

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Natural selection has produced urchins with powerful jaws so they can eat large quantities of kelp. Kelp loves to sequester carbon. Sea urchins love to eat kelp.

Kelp forest systems provide critical resources to nearshore marine communities in the central and western aleutian islands and throughout the temperate this study quantified sea otter prey quality in remnant kelp forest and urchin barren communities across a longitudinal gradient in the central and.

When you see a sea otter, they're usually either eating or digesting, often munching on urchins, says ecologist anne salomon, a pew marine fellow. The spiky sea creatures can mow down entire swaths of kelp forest, leaving behind rocky urchin nevertheless, urchins may be crucial to the health of the kelp forest ecosystem. Kelp forests comprise one the ocean's most diverse ecosystems. In northern california, purple sea urchins are decimating kelp forests.